Japanese security researchers have devised a method of cracking WPA wireless encryption in less than a minute.
The hack was developed by Toshihiro Ohigashi (Hiroshima University) and Masakatu Morii (Kobe University), building on the German-developed Beck-Tews attack which takes around 15 minutes.
The hack targets the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) version of WiFi Protected Access (WPA) wireless encryption. It cannot retrieve a WPA encryption key, but it does allow the perpetrator to read and spoof data packets.
Wireless networks using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) based encryption are immune to the hack.
